DESTIN, Florida -- Georgia coach Mark Richt said he's gone back and watched the TV replay of 13 of the Bulldogs' 14 games from 2012. It's an annual rite of passage for the SEC's longest tenured coach.

He just hasn't brought himself to watch Georgia's gut-wrenching loss to Alabama in the SEC Championship.

"We know how close we were," Richt said Tuesday at the SEC's Spring Meetings. "That’s the heartbreaking part, knowing how close you were to playing for a national championship and we all want that so much."

Richt later clarified that he watched the coach's copy of the film of Alabama's dramatic 32-28 victory at the Georgia Dome immediately after the game. He just hasn't followed through with the rest of his routine.

"A lot of times you need the time to process, and then go back and watch it again, and maybe, you might have a different feeling about something," Richt said. "But right now, I feel like our coaches prepared well, I feel like our game plan was good, I feel like we executed well, I feel like our players played their tails off. Both teams, I feel like both teams played beautifully, and it was just one epic battle that we came up on the short end of."

Earlier this month, Georgia offensive coordinator Mike Boboopened up about the play-calling at the end of the game, which saw the Bulldogs come up a few yards short after Chris Conley's in-bounds reception allowed the final seconds to melt off the clock. Months later, Bobo expressed similar disappointment to Richt's.

"Like probably everybody out here, I don’t think we’re ever gonna get
over that game,” Bobo said. "First meeting back with the players back, and
the offense, I said: Men, people keep telling you you’ve gotta get over
it and get ready to go. The bottom line is you’re never gonna get over
it, you gotta learn to live with it, you’ve gotta regroup to play the
next game, and get better the next day."

Richt was asked Tuesday if the pain was worse because of the way Alabama dominated Notre Dame in the BCS National Championship.